Re: Dedicated kernel bug database

Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@aracnet.com)
Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:40:22 -0800


> I've got loads of ideas about how we could build a better bug database

Go ahead, knock yourself out. Come back when you're done.

> - for example, we have categories at the moment in Bugzilla. Why? We
> already have a MAINTAINERS file, so say somebody looks up the relevant
> maintainer in that list, finds them, then goes to enter a bug in
> Bugzilla. Now they have to assign it to a category, and different
> people may well assign the same bug to different categories -
> immediately making duplicate detection more difficult.

Have you actually looked at the maintainers file? It's a twisted mess
of outdated information, in no well formated order. The category list
in Bugzilla was an attempt to bring some sanity to the structure,
though I won't claim it's perfect. We really need a 3-level tree, but
that's a fair amount of work to code.

M.

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